Give the next quarter a clear direction.
Decide how to advance a goal that matters, using what you have learned from the work so far.
Quarterly Quests is AQMeets’ facilitated quarterly strategy review. You examine what is working, what needs adjustment and what deserves attention in the coming quarter.
Through Fractal Feedback, experience informs your strategy. Your strategic decisions then guide the work that follows.
Included in AQMeets Pro and Leader.
Your goal may be clear while the approach needs examination.
Several worthwhile activities compete for your time. A project requires more resources than expected. A promising opportunity raises questions the original plan did not answer.
You may need to decide what happens first, which approach to test or whether the resources committed to the goal are sufficient.
Continuing without examining those questions can consume time and effort while leaving the underlying decision unresolved.
Quarterly Quests gives strategy a dedicated place in your practice.
Bring your goal and what you have learned so far.
You might be developing a service, completing a substantial project, strengthening a capability or improving how an important responsibility is carried.
Bring your current direction and observations from pursuing it.
Results, recurring difficulties, successful adjustments and changes in your circumstances can all inform the review. Your weekly and monthly records help you return to specific experience.
You do not need a finished quarterly strategy before attending. Bring the questions that need attention.
Work through three connected decisions.
Examine the experience.
What happened? What helped? What remains uncertain?
Consider how the approach is serving the goal. Distinguish what the evidence supports from an assumption you still need to test.
Choose the approach.
Decide what the coming quarter should accomplish or investigate.
Consider sequence, dependencies and capacity. Account for the time, resources, capabilities and support the work requires, alongside your existing responsibilities.
Carry it into practice.
Identify the commitments that follow from the decision.
Record what you intend to do and what you will observe. Bring that direction into monthly areas of attention, weekly commitments and daily actions.
Subsequent reviews help you examine whether the approach is working.
Fractal Feedback connects strategy with the work.
What you learn while pursuing a goal helps you judge the strategy. What you decide about the strategy changes the work that follows.
Fractal Feedback gives this connection a recurring structure.
Daily and weekly reviews retain observations close to the work. Monthly reviews examine patterns, habits, capabilities and systems. Quarterly Quests provides an occasion to consider their strategic implications.
The decision then returns to practice, where you can observe its effect.
You can respond to meaningful evidence as it emerges. You do not have to wait for a quarterly review to make an appropriate adjustment.
Explore Fractal Feedback
Consider a service you intend to expand.
Clients value the offer, but delivery takes substantially more time than you expected.
Weekly reviews record the pressure. Monthly examination helps you identify where the delivery process needs attention.
The quarterly question is whether the approach is ready for expansion.
Should you improve delivery before seeking more clients? Narrow the offer? Develop another person’s capability? Test a different way of providing the service?
You choose an approach and record the assumptions behind it.
If you decide to improve delivery first, that decision shapes the coming weeks. You identify the work required and observe whether the changes improve delivery while maintaining the necessary standards.
Later reviews return to the evidence before you commit further.
This is an illustrative example of how Fractal Feedback connects experience, strategy and action.
Give effective work a wider examination.
A successful approach may deserve greater attention.
Perhaps a process has become more reliable, a capability has improved or an opportunity has produced encouraging results.
Quarterly Quests gives you an occasion to consider whether that progress can be sustained or extended.
What contributed? What remains uncertain? What would further commitment require? Which other priorities would be affected?
The review helps you decide what to retain, develop or test next.
Prepare a direction you can use.
The review is designed to help you record:
- The goal the quarter serves.
- The approach you intend to take.
- Assumptions or constraints that need attention.
- The first commitments and observations that follow.
Some questions may require further investigation. Record those alongside the decisions you can make now.
This gives the following monthly and weekly reviews a point of reference. You can examine whether you acted on the decision, what resulted and what deserves adjustment.
Recognise when the question reaches further.
Many findings call for a change in method or strategy while the larger goal remains sound.
More substantial evidence may raise questions about annual priorities, resource allocation or a commitment recorded in your Higher Horizons Charter.
Quarterly Quests provides an occasion to recognise when that wider examination is warranted.
Evidence invites consideration. It does not automatically revise the commitment.
Where a larger change is justified, make it deliberately, record the reason and carry the resulting decision into your plans.
Higher Horizons provides the wider orientation: what you hope to build, the responsibilities you carry and the standards that guide your choices.
Explore Higher HorizonsGuidance while you exercise your judgment.
AQMeets is led by John Angheli, leadership counsellor and founder of the Center for Motivation Research.
The facilitated review uses structured questions to help you examine your approach and clarify the decisions that need attention.
Working alongside others can offer another perspective on an assumption, a constraint or a possible course of action.
You bring your goals and circumstances. You remain responsible for the decisions.
Sensitive details can remain private. Leader membership also provides private Leadership Counselling for matters that would benefit from individual attention.
Included in Pro and Leader.
Pro
AQMeets Pro includes Quarterly Quests alongside the daily, weekly and monthly practice, January Annual Aims, the midyear two-day Higher Horizons programme and Jonah’s Club.
Leader
AQMeets Leader includes Pro and adds private Leadership Counselling.
Choose the support you want around the goals and responsibilities you carry.
Questions before you begin.
Do I need to know my quarterly focus already?
Bring your current goal, competing commitments and questions about the approach. The review helps you examine what deserves attention next.
What should I bring?
Your current longer-term priorities, relevant Charter commitments or boundaries, and a concise record of recent work.
Include important changes in your circumstances and questions you want to examine.
Can I begin if I have not attended Annual Aims?
You can work from the goals and commitments you currently have. A completed annual plan is not required to begin examining your strategy.
What if the previous quarter was disrupted?
Bring the changed circumstances alongside the results. Consider what remains relevant, what is feasible now and which decisions need revisiting.
Must I keep the same plan for the whole quarter?
You can make appropriate adjustments when meaningful evidence emerges. Quarterly Quests provides a recurring occasion for a fuller strategic review.
Is Quarterly Quests included in Lite?
Lite introduces the full Fractal Feedback framework and establishes the daily, weekly and monthly practice.
Facilitated Quarterly Quests are included in Pro and Leader.
Can I explore AQMeets before joining?
The Decade Year Masterclass introduces the teaching. The Execution Scorecard offers a way to reflect on your current approach.
Both are optional.
Bring a worthwhile goal into the next quarter.
Examine what you have learned. Choose the approach the coming quarter requires. Carry the decision into your commitments and review its effect.
Quarterly Quests gives strategy a recurring place within AQMeets. Fractal Feedback connects it with the experience gathered through your work.